<p>What exactly does clinical experience mean? Hospital volunteering and shadowing make sense, of course, but to be considered "clinical" experience, what must an activity entail?</p>
<p>Would public health activities (teaching people about alcoholism/drugs, teaching sex ed., etc) be considered? I know they are not necessarily in a hospital environment or anything, but they are medically related.</p>
<p>I'm also doing this internship for about 5 months where we basically go to underprivileged elementary schools and give them free vision tests, and if they need glasses, we get the correct prescriptions and deliver it to them (all for free). It's actually part of a medical research study being done by the person in charge of the internship, but would this be considered clinical?</p>
<p>If none of those are considered clinical, what kind of activities are? The only other thing I can think of is being an EMT or something, which I def have no time for. I'm volunteering in a hospital, have done a 3 week shadowing stint in a developing country (very interesting by the way... does this count?), gone on a weeklong medical relief trip to a third-world country, and will be doing some doctor shadowing this year. But what else could fall under "clinical" experience? I feel like whatever I've done hasn't really exposed me enough to the world of medicine, and I THINK that I might be a little lacking in the clinical experience aspect for med school, so what else is there to do?</p>
<p>I apologize if I sound like an idiot, and if this is enough clinical experience, then great! But it really doesn't seem like it to me...</p>